David is a principal at iNovia Capital with a focus on Quebec investment opportunities.

Entrepreneurship is part of David’s DNA and so is helping others in their quest to grow their businesses. His interest in venture building and deep experience in sales and marketing has attracted him to mentor a large number of promising entrepreneurs. His area of expertise include; software, e-commerce and electronic payments. He learnt early on the meaning of lean start-up while at VIPswitch when he had to get large customer validation for a disruptive telecom technology for which he later helped raise $15 million to grow. Thereafter, while director of business development at Pivotal Payments, an emerging payment processor, he experienced what creating traction was all about when the company grew from a few to over 60,000 customers, 400 employees and more than $8 billion in transaction volume. After which David was named president of Callio Technologies whose intellectual property was acquired by Bell Canada.

David has a Bachelor of Commerce from John Molson School of Business and won entrepreneur of the year in a Queen’s University entrepreneurship competition.